Scilab Function
Last update : 28/10/2004

stripblanks - strips leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings

### Calling Sequence

  `txt=stripblanks(txt[,tabs])`

### Parameters

- `txt`: string or matrix of strings
- `tabs`: if TRUE then tabs are also stripped (default value is FALSE)

### Description

stripblanks strips leading and trailing blanks (and tabs) of strings

### Examples

    a='  123   ';
    '!'+a+'!'
    '!'+stripblanks(a)+'!'
    a=['  123   ',' xyz']
    strcat(stripblanks(a))